Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Pansy version in this series of flower beers, since 2009. Snow white head, light blonde colour with somewhat greenish hue, misty. Strong flower and honey aroma, caramel, gingerbread, cream, exotic fruits. Soft fruity taste, sweetish, lightly citrussy, honey-like malt sweetness, oily mouthfeel, apple, flowers, fairly low carbonation, finish aromatically hoppy. Interesting, but I guess you have to like a strongly perfumed aroma.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours hazy brown with a tan head. Aroma of raisins, Christmas spices, dark fruits, molasses and caramel. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light moderate bitter. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Commissioned ale for brasserie Demervallei, with rocky, yellowish beige, sticky head and dark mahogany colour with rusty hue, hazy with vivid sparkling. Pretty strong, estery aroma, pear syrup, candied dates, grassy hops, liquorice, orange peel, coriander, soap, banana. Candi sweetness and candied fruits in the onset, smooth but rather thin mouthfeel compared to its strength, peppery and nutty accents on a caramelly base, flowery hops in the finish, where some of the candi and liquorice sweetness also linger - perhaps just a tad too much.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Export version of the infamous biscuit beer Ultra de Noël, with a thick, moussy, yellowish white head and orange blonde, vaguely misty robe. Sweet aroma, opulently decorated with biscuit, plum loaf, gingerbread, caramel candy, banana, overripe peaches, ginger powder, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, dried orange peel and a sharp meaty smell reminiscent of meatloaf or even chicken broth. Very sweet taste of honey and ’speculaas’, caramel syrup, soft and mellow mouthfeel, sourish accent, sweetish spices, medium carbonation, finishing a bit dryish due to not too well-hidden alcohol. Original but clearly not to everybody’s taste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle . Gusher . These fuckers always get you when you least expect it , ha ? Pours clear, darker amber . Fluffy and resisting , good white head . Smell is yeasty, some spices, caramel , ambermalts , bread-grainy aspect . Taste is pretty enjoyable . bit sweet, some metallicness ( in a good way ) . some bitterness . grainy aspect in a beautifull aspect .Sugary undertone yet in no way offensive . Very enjoyable . Simple , but good. Just like more beers should be ;)
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle shared. Pours cloudy yellow with a big white head. Aroma of citrus, herbs, yeast and medicinal notes. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and bitter. Major Elastoplast in the palate. Light bodied with high carbonation. Not good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
33cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Thin white head. Hazy lemony pour. Medicinal aftertaste. Not great
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ De Zytholoog, Adegem. Brown colour with a lot of big particles (cookie?), some white foam. Soft carbonation. Very sweet aroma of cookies, ginger bread, speculoos, cinnamon, brown sugar and spices. Light bitterness in the aftertaste. Strange beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Lime-flavoured specialty ale with old-fashioned label. Tasted in 2005, I don’t know if this still exists. Off-white head on an amber coloured beer of which the aroma combines a nutty and caramelly maltiness of a medium-dark base beer with the fresh, exotic, citrussy sourishness of the lime juice, through which a soft fruity yeastiness also emerges. Taste is likewise, yeasty fruitiness, nutty maltiness and lemony freshness. I liked this for its originality, more so than most of the other taste experiments of Ecaussinnes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle from Belgium Beers. A bit of a gusher. Thick creamy white head. Cloudy amber pour. Too sweet but it does taste of cookies. I’m on the fence on this one due to the mini gushing and the bad appearance